Method for forming beveled-leather strips



' Jan. 15, 1929. I,6 99,34s

C. B. CO'OK METHOD FOR FORMING BEVELED' LEATHER STRIPS Filed Jan. 30, 1926 Midi STATES FATE orrlcs.

CARL B. COOK, OF HADDONFIELD, NEW JERSEY.

METHOD FOR FORMING IBEVELED-LEATHER STRIPS.

Application filed January 30, 1926-. Serial No. 84,950.

The object of this invention i s to provide a novel and highly advantageous machine and method for forming beveled leather strips or laces.

In the attached drawings,

in which I have illustrated an embodiment of the invention:

Figure 1 is a front vlew of the compression rollers forming a part of the machine;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the rollers showing the stripping conjunction therewith, and also the manner in which which the laces are made is fed machine;

Fig. 3 is a view in perspective in its original condition;

Fig. 4 is a view of the blank knife which. acts in illustrating the leather blank from through the of the blank as it would appear if it were passed through the rollers and not operated upon blade;

by the stripping Fig. 5 is a view of the inner end of the blank as it appears after passing roller and after it the stripping blade, and

Fig. 6 is a view in perspective through the has been acted upon by of a beveled leather blank illustrating a modification.

With reference to the drawings, the machine in its essential parts comprlses a pair of cooperating rollers 1 and 2 of suitable width, the roller 1 in the present instance being smooth-faced, while the face of the roller 2 is formed with a series of parallel annular depressions 3 which are substantially the same in width whose depth is slightly thickness of the finished described. These rollers may as the laces and greater than the lace as hereinafter be operated from any suitable external source of power.

In the present instance shaft 4: of the roller 1 I have shown the provided with a pulley 5 for connection with the source of power (not shown) may be operatively connected by The rollers 1 and 2 means of gearing if this is found desirable.

Operating in conjunction with the rollers 1 and 2, as shown in Fig. 2, is

a stripping blade 6 which is made sufficiently thin and is so beveled at its latter may fit close 1 and 2, as clearly illustrated,

working edge that the in between the rollers and suitable means (not shown) may be employed for adjusting the cutting with respect to the space betw rollers 1 and 2.

In using this mechanism,

edge of the blade een the two a strip of leather, of suitable width and in thickness substantially the same as the space between the face of the roller 1 and the bottom of one of the grooves 3, is fed between the rollers and is carried through by reason of the rotation in the direction of the arrow, see Fig. 2 of the roller 1. In this operation, the roller 2 is turned through the frictional contact with the leather blank advanced by the roller 1. As the blank passes between the rollers the upper face thereof is pressed into a parallel, longitudinal and closely set row of bevels 7, as shown in Fig. 4c, and immediately following its passage between pressure rolls, the forward edge of the blank engages the cutting edge of the blade 6 which has been so adjusted with relation to the rolls 1 and 2 that it divides the leather blank on a line A-A, indicated in dot and dash in Fig. 4, which extends parallel to the faces of the leather blank and slightly above the bottoms of the bevels 7 as clearly illustrated, so that as the blank is divided or split by the blades 6, a plurality of separate strips or laces 8 are formed which. are substantially flat on the under side and which on the upper side are beveled or rounded ofi.

This process has several decided advantages, amount which is the comparative uniformity of the beveled laces obtained, and the tendency of these laces to maintain their beveled form.

' The invention is capable of some modification without departure from the invention, such for example as employing a second bevel-faced roller 2 in place of the smoothfaced roller 1, with the result that the leather blank, which in this case must be of greater thickness than the blank used in the form of the machine illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, will be beveled on both sides; and employing two stripping blades instead of the single blade shown in Fig. 2 to split the beveled blank along the lines BB and C-C indicated in Fig. 6. In this maner each blank is made to deliver two sets of beveled laces a plurality of longitudinal beveled ridges,

and splitting the blank on a line substantially parallel to the impressed face and intermediate the tops and bottoms of said impressions.

least one face with a tudinally extending b plurality of longieveled ridges, and

splitting the blank along a line substantially parallel to the impressed surface and inter- 10 mediate the tops and bottoms of said impressions whereby the individual impressedv sections are separated from the blank in the form of a plurality of separate beveled strips.

CARL B. COOK. 

